1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791350103321

Autore

DeHart Monica C (Monica Christine)

Titolo

Ethnic entrepreneurs [[electronic resource] ] : identity and development politics in Latin America / / Monica C. DeHart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8047-7378-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Disciplina

305.80098

Soggetti

Ethnicity - Latin America

Economic development - Social aspects - Latin America

Entrepreneurship - Social aspects - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Emergent Ethnic Landscapes -- 2 Pop or Fried Chicken: Redefining Development and Ethnicity -- 3 Remapping and Remitting Development -- 4 “Hermano Entrepreneur!” Constructing a Latino Diaspora across the Digital Divide -- 5 Welcome to Walmart! Corn and the New Community Business Model -- 6 Accounting for Development: Debates over Knowledge and Authority -- 7 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Indigenous groups are not often recognized as driving forces in the push for economic development. However, in development efforts across Latin America, governments and corporations have begun to see ethnic cultural difference as an advantage. Ethnic Entrepreneurs explores how diverse groups historically seen as obstacles to development have become valuable to state and regional development initiatives. From collaboration between a Maya organization and Walmart to a UN-sponsored program that recruits diasporic Latinos, states and corporations are pursuing strategies that complement regional neoliberal shifts. This book examines how ethnic difference is produced through development policy, breaking down the micropolitics of identity and development. It uncovers surprising convergences between ethnic community businesses and corporate social



responsibility practices and illuminates how formulations of ethnic difference influence not only changing cultural identifications, but also the political and moral projects that shape Latin America.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910346828303321

Autore

Rudy Kathryn M

Titolo

Image, Knife, and Gluepot : Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Open Book Publishers, 2019

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Soggetti

Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

Sacred texts, scriptures and revered writings

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"In this ingenious study, Kathryn Rudy takes the reader on a journey to trace the birth, life and afterlife of a Netherlandish book of hours made in 1500. Image, Knife, and Gluepot painstakingly reconstructs the process by which this manuscript was created and discusses its significance as a text at the forefront of fifteenth-century book production, when the invention of mechanically-produced images led to the creation of new multimedia objects. Rudy then travels to the nineteenth century to examine the phenomenon of manuscript books being pillaged for their prints and drawings: she has diligently tracked down the dismembered parts of this book of hours for the first time. Image, Knife, and Gluepot also documents Rudy's twenty-first-century research process, as she hunts through archives while grappling with the logistics and occasionally the limits of academic research.     This is a timely volume, focusing on questions of materiality at the forefront of medieval and literary studies. Beautifully illustrated throughout, its use of original material and its striking interdisciplinary approach, combining book and art history, make it a significant academic



achievement.    Image, Knife, and Gluepot is a valuable text for any scholar in the fields of medieval studies, the history of early books and publishing, cultural history or material culture. Written in Rudy's inimitable style, it will also be rewarding for any student enrolled in a course on manuscript production, as well as non-specialists interested in the afterlives of manuscripts and prints.     The Royal Society of Edinburgh has generously contributed to this Open Access publication.    Due to the number and quality of the images in this book, we have provided the option of a more expensive hardback edition, printed on the best quality paper available, in order to present the images as clearly and beautifully as possible. We hope this range of options - the freely available PDF, HTML and XML editions; the economically priced EPUB, MOBI and paperback editions; and the more expensively printed hardback - will satisfy everyone.  Furthermore the HTML edition allows readers to magnify the images of the manuscripts displayed in the book.  "